Your Creative Sparks:
- There is great SATISFACTION in the SMALL SUCCESS toward a vision.
- We just need TEN PEOPLE of common will to make a DIFFERENCE.
- The circle of GIVE and TAKE… It has the power to CONNECT the WORLD.
Part three of four on our West African adventure with Lobsterbird finds us in the office of Cheick, the organizer of the NyamaNyama International Art Festival. Here we discuss the ethos of why he created the festival and what it could mean for the future of Diébougou and beyond. Pull up a chair as we pull together something extraordinary. Leave us a Rating & Review!
Your Travelogue
- Before the NyamaNyama International Art Festival became a *festival*, it was just an activity organized to create awareness: to make the people of Diébougou aware of the need to take care of the environment, and to make other people aware of the city of Diébougou. [2:45]
- The vision for NyamaNyama came from a conversation between Miyu (see episode 26) and Cheick in transforming the issue of garbage in the city. Cheick's first challenge was to figure out what kind of activity would be of interest for the people of Diébougou *and* for those who would travel here from other places. [10:45]
- Cheick had organized other festivals before NyamaNyama, each with its own theme. NyamaNyama took all of these ideas and put them into one festival: traditional music, dancing and performances, local food, local products, a children's drawing competition and more. "People will come from far away to our dear city," says Cheick, "So the people and volunteers must find it interesting." [15:30]
- Cheick is not dispirited with slow progress. He holds firmly to the vision and believes that one day it will happen. "It is a long way, to change this kind of mentality. It has been years of people living this way," He says. "If we can change the minds of ten people, then those ten people can change the minds of ten others, and change will happen." [21:55]
- Cheick is gathering this small group of people through his efforts. Each person who comes is a small success, and even a small amount of success is a victory. [29:30]
- Diébougou may be a small place, but there is big work happening here. What we are doing can have effect into the future. It's about people with similar objective, similar heart, and big vision, coming together. Anything can be done, if we have the same will. [33:03]
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Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.
Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the Cross Roads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.
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